Judges of the UN International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugolsavia told former Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic Monday to move more quickly in conducting his defense against charges of genocide and war crimes. Milosevic has...

A former weapons inspector and senior employee of Australia's Defense Intelligence Organisation said Monday in a television interview that the Australian government has been covering up its involvement in the interrogation of prisoners in Iraq....

Moroccan officials announced Sunday that six Moroccan peacekeepers currently serving with the UN force in the Democratic Republic of the Congo have been arrested on charges of sex abuse. The chief of Moroccan peacekeepers in the DRC and his...

A UN ad hoc committee on human cloning meets Monday to begin consideration of an alternative approach to regulation that would focus on national lawmaking rather than on an overarching international regulatory structure. Attempts to frame a...

UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan has ruled out any possibility of his resignation over the Oil-for-Food scandal currently plaguing the UN. Annan made the statement in an interview on a BBC morning program during which he was questioned...

Here's a run-down of law-related events, expected developments and live webcasts on JURIST's docket for Monday, Feb. 14.Alberto Gonzales will be sworn in as the nation's 80th Attorney General by President Bush today. C-SPAN has...

Results for 6 Governorates, Kurdistan Assembly and Transitional National Assembly, Independent Electoral Commission of Iraq, February 14, 2005 [showing that the Shiite Alliance, a grouping of Islamic parties, garnered 47.5% of the national vote on January 30 with approximately 8.5...

Israel's cabinet voted Sunday to release 500 Palestinian prisoners in what is being termed a "goodwill gesture" to help build relations with new Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas. The cabinet also agreed to allow over 200 Palestinian laborers to enter...

Taha al-Amiri, formerly a chief judge at Basra's highest criminal court under Saddam Hussein, was assassinated by two gunmen on his way to work Saturday. Al-Amiri is one of several former Baath party figures to be killed...

Reuters is reporting that the Iraqi election commission has just issued final results from the January 30 vote and that the Shiite Alliance, a grouping of Islamic parties, has come out on top, garnering 47.5% of the vote. Meanwhile,...